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  • John_MJohn_M Posts: 7,503

    Yet still an order of magnitude better than anyone else Labour have put forward in recent years.
    Gisela is the revelation for Labour. Sadly, her own party probably think she's a Tory, and looking at her voting record, I think I agree.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 62,364
    tyson said:

    You right wingers really are a bunch of clueless romantics.

    Ah, we're back to being rude again.

    That means you must have been drinking.
  • MarkHopkinsMarkHopkins Posts: 5,584

    new thread

  • JonnyJimmyJonnyJimmy Posts: 2,548
    RodCrosby said:

    We get the Nordics. France and Germany get the PIIGS.

    What's not to like?
    France and Germany get Ireland?!?!
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 62,364

    As I said earlier I am almost 100% certain we cannot use the emergency brake in the way you believe. If we join EFTA and stay in the EEA then we are accepting that - with the exception of the rules on benefits which may well be significant - we cannot do much more about immigration than we can now.
    We can. Liechtenstein has used it before.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,362

    personally I found 77 better. Finished O levels. long summer new wave music and had lots of money from my first job - bin man !
    binman to lord high constable of england. Not bad :)
  • kle4kle4 Posts: 98,601
    Charles said:

    Matt d'Ancona doing the same in the Standard. Must be the new line
    Designed to cause older labour voters to waver? I cannot imagine most younger people feel much of a reaction about him, or know him (I had to look up his career details), unless they are politically involved and have people yell 'Rivers of Blood!' from time to time.

    Huh. Wikipedia tells me the exact phrase 'rivers of blood' doesn't appear in the speech itself.
  • El_DaveEl_Dave Posts: 145
    kle4 said:

    Gisela Stuart was on the other side.

    But in terms of other known 'good' performers, IDK. Khan seems like a safe choice, he just won a buttload of votes in London, but at his best he's only ok, and his one attempt to get fired up was shot down within seconds by, IIRC, Leadsom, who otherwise I thought had a bland but tolerable night.
    I like Ms Stuart, and she seems to win people over, but she doesn't strike me as good speaker.

    Ms Leadsom I think is aces. Like her more every time I see her on the telly.
  • El_Dave said:

    I was quite surprised by how meh Mr Khan was at last night's debate. Who are Labour's star performers?

    Sarah Wollaston and Sayeeda Warsi.
  • ExiledInScotlandExiledInScotland Posts: 1,535
    edited June 2016
    People are talking about a shift to the status quo in the ballot booth. But what is the status quo?

    If people think it is the current economy and can live with an erosion of their British identity, then it's inside the EU and will vote remain.

    If people think it is the current political system and can live with an erosion of their European identity, then it's outside the EU and will vote leave.

    So which is it?
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 53,685

    @SeanT That's why I keep my political thoughts for here. That way I have no need to feel abashed or contrite.

    Most of my friends and family have no real idea of my parallel existence here. Just as well all round, I'd say.

    When I last met up with you and Mike and the others for the last PB pub meet, I told my mum I was meeting a bunch of friends at a Japanese restaurant near Liverpool Street.

    So, when I finally left The Shooting Star, I turned left into Bishopsgate and called at Wasabi to pick up a nice Tofu Curry :lol:
  • PlatoSaidPlatoSaid Posts: 10,383
    Farage absented himself for *family reasons* according to Standard journo
  • rcs1000rcs1000 Posts: 59,419

    No implications at all. There was a move up until a year or more ago to make the EU a signatory to the ECHR and to try to standardise rulings. That would have meant that as long as one stayed in the EU one was bound by the ECHR - at least that would have been the eventual aim. The ECJ (I believe) ruled against this so the two institutions (EU and ECHR remain completely separate).

    If the UK wanted to Leave the ECHR (and I am not advocating that) then being inside or outside the EU makes no difference. Nor does being inside or outside EFTA/EEA
    It was the EHCR itself who ruled against it, saying that as the EU was not a country, it could not be a signatory.
  • AnneJGPAnneJGP Posts: 3,427

    Good evening Anne. You are always so polite when you come on here and never fail to say good evening. I thought it was about time I returned the compliment.
    Why, thank you, sir! :smile:
  • IndigoIndigo Posts: 9,966

    Yep. Stupid and crass and a whole lot of other rude words I would like to use
    And bollocks. Single engine aircraft have to fly down the Thames according to London air traffic rules, it's non negotiable.
  • pbr2013pbr2013 Posts: 649

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